US free to grab EU data on American clouds Today @ 09:18 1. By Nikolaj Nielsen <http://euobserver.com/search/author/238> 2. Nikolaj email <mailto:nn@euobserver.com> 3. Nikolaj Twitter <http://twitter.com/#%21/NikolajNielsen> BRUSSELS - An obscure section in a US law is said to entitle authorities to access, without a warrant, data stored by any EU citizen on clouds run by American companies. Although highly controversial for its indirect effects on Americans, the impact of the law appears to have been overlooked by its intended target - everyone else. Rather than case-by-case snooping, the law authorises mass-surveillance of non-Americans, for purely political purposes, said Caspar Bowden who is the former chief privacy adviser to Microsoft, at a panel on cyber security organised by the CPDP conference in Brussels on Friday (25 January). "It intentionally targets only non-US persons located outside the US and provides for a blanket authorisation to this for one year at a time. There is no individual warrantry," said Bowden, who is now an independent advocate for information rights. [...] Continua qui: http://euobserver.com/justice/118857